Major Update 1.1.0: Arenas and More

This is a major update, which saw many aspects of the game reviewed and polished a bit.

Most notably, of course, 25 different arenas were added to the game. They get unlocked as you progress, and offer variety to matches; some requiring quite different strategies. Old good plain empty field is still occasionally added to the mix.

Other changes include:

Quality of Life

• Hints for starters that will help new players make their first step;
• Match starting animation is now skippable! Just click or press any key;
• Game performance was optimised. Not that the game really required it, but it will help battery charge last longer when played on a laptop;

Visuals

• Gem brightness was tuned;
• Conquered blocks of gems now fuse together into bigger gems!
• Fixed a visual glitch where next move selection animation continued to play while in Esc menu;

Audio

• Some minor tuning, balance is better, erm, balanced;
• A different sound effect when turn results in a large area surrounded and taken over;

Achievements

• New achievement: Explorer;
• Achievement conditions reworded to be applicable to variable field size: Resounding Victory and So Close;
• Some achievements will now indicate progress toward them;

Thank you for reading this! Please share in Discussions section which changes you liked or not quite, and report any bugs you notice.